The Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA) has distributed funds to 30 communities for 60 micro projects across the state.
The projects, which are based on ‘felt-need’ importance from each community, are under school construction or renovation, community health centre construction or renovation, erosion control, as well as the provision of potable water.
Abideen Adetokunbo Adeaga, chairman, OYCSDA, made the disclosure in his keynote address at the training and disbursement of funds to the communities at the House of Chiefs in Ibadan, which include construction of culverts and line drainages in five communities, construction or renovation of community health centers in seven communities, construction or renovation of a block of three classrooms in 18 communities and drilling of motorized boreholes in 30 communities.
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Adeaga while eulogizing Seyi Makinde, Oyo State governor, said that the micro projects were meant to expand access to basic health care, education, good roads and portable water, which were part of the effort of the incumbent administration to fulfill the promises made under the popular manifesto tagged ‘Oyo State Roadmap to Sustainable Development 2023-2027 (Omituntun-2.0).
“In line with the governor’s strategic moves, OYCSDA is intervening in communities that prioritized culverts and line drainages for improved access roads, building or renovation of school buildings and community health centers, this way Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration is creating employment, conducive teaching and learning environment, access to portable water to defeat waterborne diseases as well as improved access to health care services by all and sundry.
“Permit me to recount that when the OYO-CARES took off officially in the year 2022, the budget could only cover forty-eight communities, then the maximum grant to communities was N15 million, but His Excellency has magnanimously increased it to N18 million when inflation affected the cost of materials.
“Despite the intervention at the planned forty-eight communities, the Governor approved supplementary funds for implementation of micro-projects in sixty-six communities, bringing it to a total of 114 communities benefiting from 256 micro-projects across the State,” he said.
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Abiodun Muhammed Fadeyi, deputy speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly and chairman, House Committee on Project Monitoring, who was a special guest at the event in his words, urged the benefiting communities to embrace due diligence and probity during the project execution exercise, as the state’s anti-corruption agency (OYACA) would be watching.
Israel Adesiyan, professor and chairman, Agbedo Community Management Committee, while appreciating the OYCSDA on behalf of other benefiting communities, said that the efforts of the state and OYCSDA in alleviating the conditions of various communities in Oyo State deserved accolades.
He added that the people in the areas would continue to pray for the Seyi Makinde-led administration to end well.
